skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve tried it and it worked perfectly for me. I went from -4 and -3.5 to perfect 20/20 vision over 1.5 years.

Other than vision, the second big change to me is I no longer trust science as much as I used to.
That explained it beautifully.
> The "downside" (from an US point of view) on this cap is that European credit cards don't have ridiculous card bonus programs

I've never even had a credit card. I just have a debit card that allows me to spend the money in my account (plus a limited overdraft of about €1000). I've never seen the point of anything else and I'd be suspicious as hell if a bank offered me a credit card with a reward program.
Yes, but one of the most important aspects of human intelligence is being able to realize and transcend this.
I am a highly technical internet user, yet I still now always click accept on cookie pop-ups. It's just too much work/wasted time to navigate through those pop-ups that hide the "no" option.

I might have clicked Accept on other things too because of this, good thing that the browser permission pop-ups have a different style otherwise I would have also enabled push notifications on several websites.

A less technical relative of mine is getting spammed on her mobile phone with push notifications, as she probably unwillingly gave permissions to multiple websites that she visited and showed a permission request pop-up.
Race doesn't have anything to do with it.
Mostly sobbing into my hands and wondering how over half the voting population managed to get hoodwinked into thinking that any of this might be a good idea, with a good outcome.
Exactly. This isn't a small oversight from Grindr, they share especially sensitive information (the fact that someone is gay/Bi) without the option to opt out (nevermind that it has to be opt-in).
Wasn't britain supposed to inherit all the current EU legislation more or less?
There's a lot to take from this development besides Schadenfreude, as I see it living far from Europe.

UK founders for one need to be made aware of this since it likely impacts their business directly. But also, from an economic perspective I find it very important as it highlights that MasterCard is in such a controlling position that they can price hike like this (and possibly more) as soon as they're able to, possibly indicating a lack of competition in the space. It's an interesting example of how consumer-helping rulesets are needed since clearly MC was doing fine before this hike.
Regarding the spectrum, you might be interested in these https://store.waveformlighting.com/collections/led-strips/pr...
As one who depends implicitly on Vim, he seems to me very benevolent: he doesn’t let other people break Vim.

I greatly appreciate Vim’s stability. But it’s also not only Bram that can develop it, especially on maintenance patches (as distinct from new features). I can’t think of any particular times anything regressed in Vim, except that I have a feeling there was one. A few times over the years I’ve found bugs, and each time, I’ve either submitted a patch which has been rapidly accepted, or reported the bug and it’s been fixed rapidly by Bram or someone else.
Speaking as an exhausted American, please take the reigns for a while and be in the news spotlight.
I have the exact same thought, quants and AI cannot predict long term, and that’s where to compete. Didn’t think I’d find similarly thinking people out here, where do I find more to talk to?!
They've certainly failed on a number of occasions.

Given the type of data they hold, you would expect they get targeted a lot more. Which is why they need to do better.

Much better
Unless UK customers get different pricing to EU ones it wont make a difference. The one receiving the funds (in the EU) is the one that is left worse off. The winner is the UK based bank processing transactions..
Unfortunately I think we'll have to feel the pain for a while before in convinces anyone, but that pain is probably going to all get blamed on Coronavirus for the foreseeable future so it may take some time.
Ban the Scan – Amnesty International
That doesn't explain why the rate is that high. It only explains why those students move to the US and I personally would rather stay in Canada if I were born in Canada.
Nope, they're (also) paid by the individual sellers. It's utter madness. https://www.helcim.com/us/pricing/mastercard-interchange-rat...
If the work you are doing is not stimulating and is merely a means to get a salary, then of course, you will eventually be drained of motivation and energy and it gets harder to wake up for it with every passing day.

On the other hand, something to look forward to, might give you the spark to "rise and shine".

If on top of uninteresting work, you pick up an uninteresting side-project, you are bound to make things worse. However, if the side-project is something for which you are itching to make time, then you might in fact wake up with excitement for it.
Notify: Simple library for sending notifications to various messaging services
They would want to do that to give their own citizens a fair price for the service.
> I thought they always charged high tx fees (which is also why not all merchants chose to accept it).

I used to work in a PC retail/repair shop and the reason we didn't take amex wasn't because of the fees, it was because they held the balances for longer than Visa/MC, and occasionally we had bills to pay in that time period too!
there is no difference between "life" and "no life" :)
The customer chooses the card, the retailer pays the fee. Other companies can't undercut Mastercard's fees because the consumer(the person making the decision of payment type here) doesn't know or care what the fee is.
Are you refering to search results or YouTube recommendations when logged out?

If you are signed in, YouTube recommends videos based mostly on your previous behavior.

If you're signed out, it's mostly based on what people in your location are watching.

In my case and in many others where I live, it's a fucking freak show. I seem to have nothing in common with these people. The signed-out recommendations are ugly and disgusting to me and people I know.

The search results are OK and in the language I search for mostly, except that the Wikipedia that is presented is not based on my browser/system languange (English) or the word I type, but it has started pushing Wikipedia in French, which I do speak, but not looking for as it's practically empty for topics of my interest.

I have to write "$word wikipedia English" or search "en." on the page and it's tiring.

Other sites ignore language and it's horrible. They present the Arabic version, which I also speak, that I'm not interested in. They don't even let me change that. It sucks and I stopped using these sites.
> your microwave, coffee machine and even bedside clock will.

I guess a ~0.5% deviation for a couple minutes is going to be tolerable here.
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> What happens if nobody sells?

This has nothing to do with the ratio of short shares to float. What happens if there are 300 shares floating, 20 short shares, and nobody sells?
> Also, I don't understand the relationship between this and framing black people for crimes, as far as I could tell the video clips are real clips from the news about black people committing crimes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_(social_sciences)
Check if you clicked on any links on Twitter for the blog ran by DPRK hackers
Can someone explain why that is even happening - I thought the 'deal' was meant to prevent that. Wasn't this what everyone was worried about happening with a hard Brexit?
Look up the actual numbers, chances are that you’ll find the actual EU bureaucracy is nimbler and more cost-effective than your national one, per-head. The EU budget is tiny.

The choice of matters discussed at EU level is sadly due to the agenda of national states, for the major part; in a lot of cases it’s actually what they don’t feel brave enough to touch but still think “something should be done about”, so the EU provides plausible deniability. If you feel this is not to your likes, complain to your MEPs and your national MPs.

Personally I think some issues won’t be solved until we have more European authority rather than less; a bit like the US ended up moving most powers to the federal government during its first 150 years.
> Mastercard doesn't have a monopoly

Are we living in the same world? Visa+MC are a duopoly borderlining being a de facto cartel organization and handle the vast majority of all retail transactions in the world.
> Say, your program is an editor of png files and it requires libpng. Thus in your code you will have
>
> #include <libpng.h>

In addition to what other commenters wrote (failures later during compilation instead of at the start), you also need proper include path in CFLAGS.

For example, gdk-pixbuf is supposed to be included by '#include <gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf.h>'. That would assume the header file is in /usr/include/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf.h . But distribution that i use installs it in /usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf.h , likely to be able to have multiple versions of header files installed togethers.

You are supposed to use 'pkg-config' tool in configure script to add proper header file locations in CFLAGS to handle this (in this case -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2).

> and in your makefile you will link your executable with -lpng.

The library you are usimg may depend itself. on another library, you need to add -l flags for all recursively dependent libraries to linker. As this set of recursively dependent libraries may change in the future, you are supposed to use pkg-config to find proper link flags.

Note that all of this is not really dependent on configure, you can do that in a simple makefile (by just calling pkg-config directly from it). So it is more about using pkg-config instead of hardcoded paths than about using configure scripts.
I had coworkers that interviewed a guy with a pants problem. The candidate entered the room and sat down before remembering his pants were unzipped. He promptly stood up and zipped his pants. This made for an unexpected ice breaker. He didn’t get the job, as he failed to measure up on actual technical portions of the interview.
It would be very cool indeed to have crypto nodes (using Avalanche consensus perhaps?) running locally on all of these satellites. It shouldn't use that much extra power... you could probably do it at less than 50W per satellite. Right not you can run an Avalanche node on a Raspberry Pi 4 which uses 15 W max.
Bryan Fogel on why streaming platforms were scared of releasing The Dissident
Anything the UK did was done while it was still under EU rules. Agree that other European countries should be doing better.
How to Make Library Distribution Easier: A Manylinux-Based Web Building Platform
Don’t feed the troll.
Yes but in my experience (with korma, which I don't like) I've not used a lot of programmatic modification of SQL queries. At the end of the day, I write a query for "a data question", and I add parameters to the question, but it is rare for me that I need to "create new types of questions" on the fly.

Even if I need to compose a query for a more flexible questioning than using a value parameters, this is something that typically could be done by combining 2 or 3 substrings, there is not typically the need to work queries as much as I do with HTML and hiccup.

So at the end I moved to HugSQL (the modern+popular "write your queries in SQL"-philosophy library) instead of YesQL (the modern+popular "write your queries in clojure"-philosophy library, similar in approach to korma).
This is true, Norway and Switzerland are strong economies that can stay outside EU. Norway have a lot of oil compared to the number of people who lives there, which makes Norway a more independent economy than for example UK. I do think Norway would benefit by becoming a full EU member. But there are also good reasons not to. So the EEA treaty is the best of both worlds. Norway lose and gain some.
Sad! It takes years of rock solidness to make a name in Linux for reliability, and basically one stupid decision to destroy a reputation.

CentOS brought people in to the EcoSystem as an alternative to Debian Based distros and that is sadly no more.
There is only one other payment processor (at least for cards) and that’s Visa.

The margins are extreme, but so are the barriers to entry. To build a new card network you somehow need to convince a bunch of banks and merchants to support your card network. Good luck with that.

The EU even forced Mastercard to allow others to start a card network running over their infrastructure, after they bought EuroPay. But it’s so hard to get people to actually use a new card network, that no ones actually bothered to try.
See also Pruitt-Igoo, as Wikipedia says:

an icon of failure of urban renewal, public-policy planning and public housing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt–Igoe
And, more importantly, will be they be able to preserve that capital over the next 5 years? Will they survive a significant correction?
Your typical shopify store charges the same stuff for everyone, you pick the country and pay at checkout. The only differentiator is shipping costs. So i don't understand the meaning when you say customers. The loser is the EU merchant shop and the winner is the British bank.

Everyone on this thread is jumping to the conclusion its some Brexit mania without looking into the detail of who receives the interchange and who pays it.
Just in the news today that they may start withholding the Pfizer vaccine for EU countries, and since they're made in Belgium there's not a lot we can do about that.
Eventually. Right now there are only 10 satellites being launched.
It already is doing a worse job: look at the rates of vaccination.

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
> Unfortunately, disabling JS is only marginally more practical

I've done it for years and it's fine if you are willing to put in 2 seconds of effort here and there, besides some redirects for online purchases it's mostly painless.

Also no one needs to be making bets here, they were seemingly hit by something that Google still can't identify, from the article:

> the researchers have followed a link on Twitter to a write-up hosted on blog.br0vvnn[.]io, and shortly thereafter, a malicious service was installed on the researcher’s system and an in-memory backdoor would begin beaconing to an actor-owned command and control server. At the time of these visits, the victim systems were running fully patched and up-to-date Windows 10 and Chrome browser versions.
It gives people access to embedded without them needing to learn C. This is useful for hobbyists. I'm not against learning new languages, but sometimes you want to use what you are familiar with so that you can think about your project, not learning to write the code.

Also re: your last point, most of these languages have library support for common features, and you definitely don't have to think about registers and memory addresses. Look at the kind of projects people make with Arduino, flashing LEDs and servos work just fine in a high level language.
> On the consumer side, your microwave, coffee machine and even bedside clock will

I'd be very surprised. It's cheaper to build in a 32.768kHz crystal for timekeeping than try to access the grid frequency from the isolated low-voltage circuit.
I'm only a hobbyist in this area, but I wonder why the review wouldn't mention some of the graph databases as, at least, semantic web adjacent. Their relative success seems to lend credence to the overall vision of the semantic web and its supporting technologies. For example, are there really more than surface syntactical differences between SPARQL and Cypher?

Even though it was over-hyped, I like the semantic web because it supports a conception for the future that includes something other than neural network black-boxes. However, whether the ideas deliver remains to be seen.

If anyone is looking for an introduction, then I think the Linked Data book from Manning is worth mentioning--it might be a little dated at this point. The author provides a coherent introduction and helps, especially, in cutting through the confusing proliferation of acronyms that characterizes this field. As others have mentioned, reliable software is a major stumbling block. It's especially unfortunate that there isn't better browser support, of RDFa for example.
Thanks for the response. I do see the applicability and their dominant market position. In what way is it a huge issue for many startups?

Personally I see issues for consumers on the one hand and companies that provide goods or services that are deemed "not acceptable" by the duopoly. So I'm interested in the issues many startups have.

Regarding the article, as far as I found out by googling a bit, they basically rais the fees to their non-internal-EU fees. (But that might not actually be the case.) So it feels less news worthy to me.
> the VIN is also not always publicly visible (in Europe

VIN is visible in the windscreen on cars. In UK at least,
Shipping things to my friends and planning to leave.
In my view users should be able to browse ads by subscribing to interests and tastes. Instagram is close to this, but voluntary discovery would really make users feel more comfortable...

I agree that it sounds crazy and counter intuitive, but if everyone could post geolocalized ads, it would feel better.
Does anybody truly believe that this is a good thing?

The stock market is detached from reality. It creates its own universe. The efficiency we're talking about here is self-referential - it's not efficiency in producing object-level value, it's efficiency in enriching participants of the stock market. Which depends as much on the company itself as it depends on the hype the funds and the shareholders can make around it.

That WSB can tank or revive companies just for teh lulz only shows to demonstrate how the stock market is an universe of its own.
Exploring the Underpinnings of Shadowbanning on Twitter
A brief look at citations on Wikipedia seems to contradict everything you've said. Maybe you'd like to link some research?
Relevant Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continenta...

Must admit I’ve never heard of this before :-)
> the UK right now is blaming everyone but themselves

Only a narrow political class of Brexit true-believers are doing that, and it seems unfair to say they represent the UK in totality.

There are plenty of voices in the the UK who've warned about the economic consequences and even now are shining a light on the consequences of Brexit.
The Lincoln Project
Just support your country negotiating opt outs of things you don't like. That's one thing I thought really worked about the EU, when we were in we had opt outs on all sorts of things. Schengen, the Euro, various employment legislation, it was very flexible. The only things we were 'forced' into were a few marginal issues like the details of the contents of labels on tin cans and such. I thought two speed Europe, really multi-speed Europe worked pretty well. It's been rather sad watching so many Brexiteers complaining about EU regulations and agreements we weren't even part of.
While I don’t hold much love for autoconf and autotools as full suites to work with, count me in as someone who appreciates GNU make and simple makefiles.

I use it for lots of things, even NodeJS, and it helps me keep my builds more portable.

I’d hate to see GNU make completely abandoned.
Just use Firefox, or whatever else instead of increasing Chrome market share, regardless in whatever shape or form.

It it like the iPhone, buying them and then complain they are restricted devices.
Good luck; anecdotally low risk people in Germany more likely to be towards the end of the year, unless something changes.
The EU really needs to get better at educating everyone what it actually does and why it exists. How much money they spend every year and how much the EU actually costs every citzen in Europe on average.
> how many days in total the user must wear the device to achieve a permanent correction

Sounds like they think it will be permanent, since they use the world permanent in that exact snippet you quoted.
Crossbows require a permit as well :) Can't have the population undermining that monoploy on force ;)

But I get your point.

Like I said I hadn't given it much thought, though if one could get a sustainably large commune group with reasonable access to weaponry it would hopefully be a deterrent for most small groups.

I'm in Australia which rather large. Clean water is the likely the most valuable commodity. It would be interesting to see how much of the population would actually survive such a collapse.
Most citizens will never notice the price difference. Any costs that get passed on will be rolled up into extra costs of doing business with U.K. now that we’ve left the EU.

The big ticket items there will be VAT, and customs duties, which are measured in 10’s of %. So realistically customers will never know to complain about this fee increase once the news cycles ends.
> Imagine the massive spinning generators as a big mass that slow down just a little bit when you switch on a light and then that generator has to add more steam (or open hydro valve or whatever).

I have always wondered, would that still hold true if the grid was fully solar-based? There would be no rotating mass in that case.
>Everyone getting rich with crypto, with Game Stop, Tesla (and other option trades), with SPACS, in the tech industry, and so on.

"Everyone getting rich"? What new bubble are you living on?

Tens of millions were added to the permanent unemployed lines, hundreds of thousands of small businesses are in the brink of bankrupty, and regular working/middle class joes have badded than ever in the last 10 years (which are a pretty low bar themselves, compared to pre-70s).
From a personal finance perspective (for most western citizens), import duties etc. are a rounding error compared to other influences.
Google talk/hangouts/whatever else they call it this month.

WebAssembly features post MVP 1.0.

PWAs capabilities.
normal BR-R shouldn't.
Yes so far but it's very early in the vaccinations. Feels equivalent to making a judgement on worst country for death toll in March last year.

(As a Brit, I'm pleasantly surprised how smoothly our vaccine roll out is going so far!)
> Thus proving the caps were indeed necessary.

Hmm, the cap is necessary if the fees are abusively high and hurt businesses, consumers, and competition, not just because people prefer to pay less.

I don't see how a change from 0.3% to 1.5% proves anything, especially that this is still abiding by the cap set for non-EEA transactions: The UK is no longer in the EEA so they have decided to apply that cap instead of the intra-EEA one, as is their fair and legal right.
We still do the air raid tests here too, every 1st Monday of the month at noon, but they are more for other kinds of disasters (pollution, gas leaks, large fires and so on). That system is about to be phased out completely, because mobile phones are a much faster way to reach people.

Personally I don't mind the sirens, they tend to work pretty reliably and every time the mobile phone network was used to indicate something was up for some reason I totally missed the message, never received it or received it more than a day later.
They owe more shares than there are available and they pay interest on said shares. Even if nobody sells, the interest gets accumulated and they are bleeding.
What is the use for the browser serving some of these details? Number of CPU cores, amount of RAM, installed browser plugins, GPU model?
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25902440